So I just bought a 42'' Sharp Aquos with a built in HDTV tuner. I currently have it hooked up to a new set of RCA rabbit ears. I am trying to watch the big game today...with no luck.

The bizarre thing is that it was working fine a few hours ago.

I simply plugged in the antenna, had the TV do the auto programming feature, and the channel came in perfectly. I was amazed with how good everything looked, so I flipped through the channels.

All of a sudden the channel that the game is on won't come in. 25.1 in my case. I have tried adjusting the antenna, having the TV re-find all of the channels, tin foil on the antenna, unplugging the TV for a while...

Any ideas about why it would work one second, and not at all now? I've been at this for a few hours now.

EDIT: The tv has a feature that says the strength of the channel, when it actually tuned the channel it was almost as high as it could be. Now its at 0.

Are any other digital channels working?
You might have too strong of a signal which will cause a digital tuner to overload and receive nothing.

Disconnect the antenna and do a digital ATSC channel scan. This should clear the list of channels. Then reconnect the antenna, aim it at the Fox station at the location where it worked before, turn down the amp if it has one built-in. Then do the digital OTA scan again to see if the station comes in. Without check the manual to see if Sharp has separate scans for ATSC and cable, make sure that you are doing a ATSC OTA digital scan, not for digital QAM cable. Good luck.

PS Your zip code would help us look up your stations and your approx distance to the broadcast towers.

If it's not working by now, I'd be pissed.

Hope you aren't in Ft Smith...

Disconnect the antenna and do a digital ATSC channel scan. This should clear the list of channels. Then reconnect the antenna, aim it at the Fox station at the location where it worked before, turn down the amp if it has one built-in. Then do the digital OTA scan again to see if the station comes in. Without check the manual to see if Sharp has separate scans for ATSC and cable, make sure that you are doing a ATSC OTA digital scan, not for digital QAM cable. Good luck.

PS Your zip code would help us look up your stations and your approx distance to the broadcast towers.

Well, it never did end up working for the game, so I had to watch it in SD. Sucked...especially with a taste of the true HD. My zip is 02134.

I'm gonna try this tomorrow to see if I can get it working. I'll probably just end up getting the HD package with Comcast.

Is there any way to have both my Comcast cable and the antenna into my TV simultaneously?

Thanks for all of the help.

Well, it never did end up working for the game, so I had to watch it in SD. Sucked...especially with a taste of the true HD. My zip is 02134.

I'm gonna try this tomorrow to see if I can get it working. I'll probably just end up getting the HD package with Comcast.

Is there any way to have both my Comcast cable and the antenna into my TV simultaneously?
Only if the TV has two coaxial inputs, one for cable and one for broadcast. Besides, with Comcast, you will want to get their HD STB or DVR, unless you have a TivoHD or a TV which can take cable cards.

So I just bought a 42'' Sharp Aquos with a built in HDTV tuner. I currently have it hooked up to a new set of RCA rabbit ears. I am trying to watch the big game today...with no luck.

The bizarre thing is that it was working fine a few hours ago.

I simply plugged in the antenna, had the TV do the auto programming feature, and the channel came in perfectly. I was amazed with how good everything looked, so I flipped through the channels.

All of a sudden the channel that the game is on won't come in. 25.1 in my case. I have tried adjusting the antenna, having the TV re-find all of the channels, tin foil on the antenna, unplugging the TV for a while...



You may want to check out this thread (URL below, but I had to remove the "auto link" since I'm a new member and rules for the forum are you must have 3 posts before you can add links -- spam countermeasure). So I hope you can Just copy/paste (without the # at the beginning).

Might be something in common. No solution yet, but sounds eerily similar. I was looking around for others with possibly same issue in hopes of finding solution. Originally, my thinking was this was local issue (okla city), but I think I saw your zip in another post as being somewhere else...

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